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Almighty God can and often does overrule evil actions toward His own glory and to cause bad means to conduce to a good end.
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The feather drifts through the opening and closing of Forrest Gump—carried by winds it cannot control, landing where it will. Forrest wonders: "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on...
Exell's Victorian illustration captures this paradox through a striking nautical image: a boat that has sailed the salt ocean, battered by storms and half-filled with briny water, now navigates fresh river currents.
If God be for us, who can be against us?
It is the shepherd's mark distinguishing the flock of the Lord Jesus from the rest of the world.
The juxtaposition reveals the animating principle of New Testament morality itself: devotion to God is the indispensable basis of all practical helpfulness to man, and conversely, practical helpfulness to man is the expression and manifestation of devotion to God.
First, as an intellectual gift, the Scriptures answer mankind's deepest inquiries about the origin and history of the world in ways that satisfy the reasoning mind.
The gifts are not separate from grace; they are its direct offspring, its cognates.
In American History X, Derek Vinyard is a neo-Nazi whose hatred landed him in prison. There, a Black inmate named Lamont befriends him, slowly dissolving Derek's ideology through ordinary kindness—folding laundry, sharing jokes, treating him as human. Derek emerges transformed.
Only *sections* of these households became Christian; notably, the masters themselves remained outside the faith.
The 'stronger' believer—he who correctly judges that eating meat offered to idols involves no moral guilt—must nonetheless abstain if his eating becomes a *skandalon* (stumbling-block) or *proskamma* (occasion to fall) in another's path.
In Steel Magnolias, M'Lynn holds her daughter Shelby as she dies from diabetic complications. At the funeral, M'Lynn's rage explodes. Then her friends surround her—crying, laughing, holding her. At Lazarus's grave, Jesus did not explain; he grieved. M'Lynn's friends do...
Yet Maclaren observes that "as they abode together and worked at their trade, there would be many earnest talks about the Christ, and these ended in both husband and wife becoming disciples." The mundane labor of their craft became the...
Critics who say 'Give me his ethics, keep his dogmas' commit a fatal severance that destroys both.
In The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne wakes with no memory of who he was—only skills and instincts. As his past resurfaces, he must choose: become the assassin he was, or become someone new. He chooses new.
In The Avengers, a god, a super-soldier, a genius billionaire, a rage monster, and two spies must work together—or the world ends. Each has unique gifts; none can succeed alone.
In The Princess Bride, Westley faces multiple trials: The Cliffs of Insanity, the swordsman Inigo, the giant Fezzik, the fire swamp. Each requires different equipment—climbing skills, sword mastery, wrestling, fire survival.
Romans 1:1-7 Hosea 11:1-11 irritates you, it may be because God is touching the idol you protect.
Romans 10:8b-13 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Romans 5:12-19 139:1-6, 13-18 calls for a real response—grace invites, but love must be chosen—today, not someday.
Romans 5:1-11 Hebrews 12:18-29 feels foreign, it may be because we’ve reduced faith to information—today, not someday.
In Romans 8:14-17, salvation is not mere pardon; it is holiness, perfected in love—today, not someday.
Romans 5:12-19 50:1-8, 22-23 magnifies sovereign grace—God saves, sustains, and secures His people for His glory.
Romans 15:4-13 139:1-6, 13-18 magnifies sovereign grace—God saves, sustains, and secures His people for His glory.